Quotes About Rights

Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to "protect us," freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren't the very basis of safety.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Every woman should be "absolute mistress of her own body.

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations," she went on, "are all too frequently those who by our own words and acts ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right to independent thought.

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

The media wants to call them riots, but they're uprisings. Why should black people behave well to get their rights? White people don't behave and they get all the rights they want.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

We have agreed to be equal in all rights and responsibilities. How much equal, we have yet to set.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.